PilotPal vs Map Flight International
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PilotPal
This app provides FAA aviation airport charts and facility directories for easy flight planning. Access airport diagrams, frequencies, elevation, and helipad information offline. Stay updated with monthly chart revisions and quickly find nearby or favorite airports.
- Offline charts
- Airport Facility Directories
- Airport Diagrams
- Airport Information (Maps, Frequencies, Elevation, Helipads)
- Monthly updated FAA charts
- Nearby and favorite airports
- Airport search
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PilotPal is the easiest way to flight plan. PilotPal brings the FAA airport facility directory and Airport Diagrams to your pocket. Features: • Offline Charts: Easily download airports or entire regions for offline use • Airport Facility Directories • Airport Diagrams • Weather via METAR and TAF • Wind maps • Airport Information including: • Maps • Frequencies • Elevation • Helipads • Updated FAA charts every month so you're always up to date. • Nearby airports: Easily find airports around you • Favorite airports: Save your favorites for quick access • Airport search: Easily find any airport or helipad • Dark mode • iPad support Built by real pilots with a love for aviation Feedback or issues: tinybyteapps@gmail.com Legal: Airport facility directories and airport diagrams are provided by the FAA. Always consult appropriate and available sources to prepare for your flight. Our privacy policy is available at: https://pilotpal-1139.firebaseapp.com/privacypolicy.htm Our terms of service is available at: https://pilotpal-1139.firebaseapp.com/termsofuse.html
Map Flight International
This app provides real-time flight tracking for Infinite Flight users. It allows you to find flights, search for airports and flight plans, and view player and weather information. Discover new flights and monitor flight details with ease.
- Live flight tracking
- Flight search and discovery
- Airport information lookup
- Player and weather data
- Flight plan search
- Automatic flight refresh
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Map-Flight is a live flight tracker for Infinite Flight. It allows you to easily track flights, find flights of interest, search for and discover new flights and airports, search flight flight plans, search player, airport and weather information. It has the following powerful functions: -Check flights from different servers -Check flight departure and landing airport -View flight destinations -Check the remaining flight time of the flight, etc. -View player information for flights -Check the current weather of the flight -Share flight -Download flights -Query different airport information -Check the current weather at the airport -Check the ATC of the current airport -Automatic flight refresh -Switch servers More features are being developed ... stay tuned!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PilotPal at 55% against Map Flight International's 0%. PilotPal also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (664 vs 10). Map Flight International's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. PilotPal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Map Flight International sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PilotPal holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PilotPal has 664 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of PilotPal's written reviews are positive against 0% of Map Flight International's.
PilotPal ships an update every 3 months, Map Flight International every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PilotPal | Map Flight International |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (664 ratings) — better | 3.4 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 664 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tinybyte Apps LLC | 英轩 董 |
Customer experience
PilotPal
Map Flight International
Bugs and requests
PilotPal
Reported bugs
5 issues- Subscription verification loop - shows already subscribed but denies access
- Airport diagrams not displaying despite active subscription
- App stopped working after February update
- General app functionality failures
- Missing settings/preferences menu
Requested features
6 requests- Airport diagram printing functionality
- Ability to sort favorites tab
- Front and back page information inclusion
- Improved search functionality for VOR locations
- Legend/index documentation
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- Comprehensive chart supplement data (VFR corridors, visual reporting points, VOR test locations)
Map Flight International
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PilotPal
- Airport Diagrams$0.991 Month
- PilotPal Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- PilotPal Pro3 Days trial$19.991 Year
Map Flight International
- 10 days subscription$0.99
- 1 month subscription$2.99
- 3 months subscription$6.99
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- 6 months subscription$13.99
- 1 year subscription$26.99
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